Muscle-specific splicing of a heterologous exon mediated by a single muscle-specific splicing enhancer from the cardiac troponin T gene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4519-4525

  Cooper, Thomas A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; INTRON; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031857406     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.8.4519     Document Type: Article

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